Jesus Ramirez and Alfredo Sifuentes spent 12 years in prison for a murder they say they didn’t commit before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated their convictions. It took a federal jury less than five hours to decide that the two men weren’t entitled to collect damages from those who put them away.
Ramirez and Sifuentes — represented by the same Haynes and Boone lawyers who helped win their freedom — filed a civil rights suit in Lubbock federal district court in April 2009 alleging that authorities had conspired against them and committed misconduct in arresting and prosecuting them for the 1996 killing of a woman at a Littlefield convenience store.
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